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Lee Hysan: a tale of poetry, murder and the moving of mountains

Today, Hong Kong's small but crowded Causeway Bay district is famous as being among the most expensive retail spaces in the world to rent. But few people remember the extraordinary story of the family behind the miracle. Nury Vittachi and Emily Zhou report. IMAGINE HONG KONG'S Victoria Park underwater. In the 1920s, there was…

July 12, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Features

Palace Museum as an architectural landmark

(Caption: Look closely at the thousands of aluminium panels on the side walls and you can see the classical Chinese influence on what looks like a very contemporary building. Image: China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong)) WHEN GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED Hong Kong architect Rocco Yim Sen-kee took the helm of designing the city’s new Palace…

July 11, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

Sri Lanka: What you are not being told

THE CURRENT SRI LANKA narrative goes like this. The ruling party made a series of bad decisions about fertilizer, petrol, and a “debt trap” (yes, from a certain country with a red flag), and, as a result, they have been chased out of office by angry citizens. New leaders will have to be found. Many…

July 11, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Graphics

Ni Kuang: A king of Hong Kong genre fiction

A troubled escapee from the People’s Liberation Army was smuggled to Hong Kong and eventually became a celebrated author WRITER NI KUANG is being mourned in Hong Kong and across much of the Chinese-speaking world. To readers of Chinese, he was the bestselling author of huge numbers of genre books with sci-fi, martial arts and…

July 7, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Opinion

New CE can bring long-term prosperity to Hong Kong

THANKS TO THE changes in the electoral system and the ensuring of patriots administering Hong Kong, the newly elected Chief Executive John Lee has a clear policy vision. He is taking a results-oriented approach to resolve Hong Kong’s deep-rooted problems. After the official appointment of Principal Officials of the sixth-term Government of HKSAR from the…

July 6, 20220Comments ByAlvin Wan

Opinion

Looking back 25 years, we see how Hong Kong has developed

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS have passed since the official Handover of Hong Kong sovereignty from Britain to the People’s Republic of China. What lay ahead were a mixture of uncertainty and hope for the city. The past quarter century had been a period of change, development, and growth. To mark the significance of this milestone, let’s explore…

July 6, 20220Comments ByHilaire Chow

Lee Hysan: a tale of poetry, murder and the moving of mountains

Palace Museum as an architectural landmark

Sri Lanka: What you are not being told

‘Crimes’ of Julian Assange: infographic

Lecturing Hong Kong: cartoon

Hong Kong people now wealthier than British: Humor spot

Boris Johnson’s travails: humor spot

Ni Kuang: A king of Hong Kong genre fiction

New CE can bring long-term prosperity to Hong Kong

Looking back 25 years, we see how Hong Kong has developed

FAQ: Is Hong Kong’s ‘Friday’ news project a commie plot from Beijing?

Hong Kong now has world’s top insurance penetration rate

Space: a new business frontier is opening up over our heads